Isaiah 48
1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Høyr dette, de av Jakobs hus, de som er nemnde med Israels-namnet og hev runne or Judas kjelda, de som sver ved Herrens namn og ærar Israels Gud - men ikkje med sanning og rett!
2 For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
For dei kallar seg etter den heilage byen og lit på Israels Gud som heiter Allhers-Herren.
3 I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.
Dei fyrste hendingar hev eg forkynt for lenge sidan, or min munn gjekk dei ut, og eg kunngjorde deim; brått hev eg sett deim i verk, og dei kom.
4 Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
For eg visste at du er hard, at nakken din er som ei jarnspong og panna di som kopar.
5 For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.
So forkynte eg deg det for lenge sidan, kunngjorde deg det fyrr det kom, so du ei skulde segja: «Bilætet mitt hev gjort det, mitt skorne eller støypte bilæt’ hev skipa det til.»
6 All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.
Du hev høyrt det, sjå det no alt i hop! Og de, må de ikkje sanna det? Men no eg forkynner deg nytt, dulde ting som du ikkje veit um.
7 They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
No vert det skapt og ikkje fyrr, og du hev’kje høyrt um det fyrr i dag, so du ikkje skulde segja: «Det visste eg!»
8 Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.
Du hev korkje høyrt eller visst det eller fyrr fenge øyra upp for det, for eg visste at du er falsk, og «utru» du heiter frå moderliv.
9 Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.
For mitt namn skuld døyver eg min harm, og for mi æra skuld ber eg yver med deg, so eg ikkje tynar deg reint.
10 See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.
Eg hev smelta deg - men vann ikkje sylv, eg hev prøvt deg i lidingsomnen.
11 For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.
For mi skuld, for mi skuld gjer eg det, for skulde eg tola at namnet mitt vert krenkt? Mi æra gjev eg ingen annan.
12 Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.
Høyr på meg, Jakob, og du Israel som eg hev kalla! Eg er det, eg, den fyrste, og eg er den siste med.
13 Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.
Mi hand hev og grunnfest jordi, og mi høgre hand spana himmelen ut. So snart eg kallar på deim, stend dei der båe.
14 Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.
Kom saman alle og høyr: Kven av deim hev kunngjort dette? Han som Herren elskar, skal gjera hans vilje mot Babel og vera hans arm mot kaldæarfolket.
15 I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.
Eg, eg hev tala, ja hev kalla honom, eg hev late han koma og få lukka på ferdi.
16 Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.
Kom hit til meg, høyr dette! Frå upphavet tala eg ei i løyndom. Frå den tid det kom, då var eg der. Og no hev Herren, Herren sendt meg og sin ande.
17 The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
So segjer Herren, utløysaren din, Israels Heilage: Eg er Herren, din Gud, som lærer deg det som gagnar, som leider deg på vegen du skal fara.
18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Å, vilde du lyda på mine bod! Då vart din fred som elvi og di rettferd som havsens bylgjor.
19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
Då vart di ætt som sanden og di livsfrukt som sandkorn; ættarnamnet vart aldri øydt eller utsletta for mi åsyn.
20 Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.
Drag ut or Babel, fly frå kaldæarland! Med fagnadrop forkynn og fortel det, spreid det ut til verdsens ende! Seg at Herren hev løyst ut sin tenar Jakob!
21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.
Dei tyrste ikkje; i øydemark førde han deim, vatn or berget let han sildra åt deim, han kløyvde berget, og vatnet renn.
22 There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Dei gudlause hev ingen fred, segjer Herren.
